On
March 18, 2006 I attended the prescreening of the Aaron Russo film,
America: From Freedom to Fascism at the Arcada Theater in St. Charles,
Illinois. In the film, Russo, neither a Democrat nor a Republican,
suggests that we �Stop being a good Democrat. Stop being a good Republican.
Start being a good American.� This enlightening film is scheduled
for release to the general public on July 4, 2006.[1]See the
trailer here. Russo skillfully wrote, directed and appeared in
this masterful film. This is a must-see movie.

�The
film is an expos� of the Internal Revenue Service, and proves conclusively
there is no law requiring an American citizen to pay a direct unapportioned
Tax on their labor.�[2]
The Income Tax is Voluntary![3]
This film is unlike anything that Russo has done previously. Although
it is entertaining, because of Russo�s unique skills and personality,
it is also highly educational and absolutely deserved the two standing
ovations that it received. Not only did we see this marvelous, informative
movie, Aaron Russo and Robert L. Schulz from We the People Congress,
a New York based organization, spoke before and after the movie. We
the People Congress have several goals as defined by their mission
statement.[4]

Russo
began making his movie on the premise that the 16th Amendment was
never ratified by the required three fourths of the states.[5]
An amendment was necessary as the Supreme Court had already declared
income tax unconstitutional in 1895. Russo briefly touched on other
important issues but reminded the audience that this was just the
first expos� film. If actually ratified, this 1913 amendment would
have given the federal government the right to tax the income of all
working Americans. Interestingly, �a heavy progressive or graduated
income tax�[6]
is the second goal of the �Ten Communist Commandments� found within
the ignoble Communist Manifesto � a lengthy document whose directives
are designed to completely socialize and enslave an entire populace.

Russo�s
wonderful film featured, among others, the following individuals:
G. Edward Griffin, Ron Paul, Michael Ruppert, Irwin Schiff, Joe Banister,
John Turner, Sherry Jackson Peel, Larkin Rose, Charlie Beale, Bob
Schulz, Dave Champion and Vernie Kuglin. Russo also interviewed a
former IRS Commissioner in an attempt to uncover the exact law that
enables the government to confiscate taxes from working Americans.
He was adamant in his request: �just show me the law that says a working
citizen in the United States owes an income tax.� Russo interviewed
several people on the street who we may readily assume represent typical
citizens. Most individuals believe that their income taxes are used
for such things as infrastructure, education, schools, etc. This is,
in fact, not the case.

Americans
pay approximately fifty percent of their income in taxes if one combines
the numerous hidden taxes that are extracted during the course of
our daily lives. There are specific taxes that pay for infrastructure,
education, schools, etc. The unconstitutional income tax is used to
pay the interest on the national debt owed to the un-federal Federal
Reserve, a cartel of privately owned, never audited banks. In 1913
Congress abdicated their constitutional responsibility to issue and
regulate money by passing the treacherous Federal Reserve Act originally
proposed by Nelson Aldrich, the same individual who suggested the
16th amendment.[7]
This allowed the privately owned Federal Reserve, a part of the international
banking cartel, to �have access to the public funds in the U.S. Treasury,�[8]
to take control of our money supply and interest rates and thus our
nation�s economy. �They may create and inflate money at will.�[9]

�Income
tax didn�t soak the rich, it soaked the middle class. Because it was
a graduated tax, it tended to prevent anyone from rising into affluence.
Thus it acted to consolidate the wealth of the entrenched interests
and protect them from new competition.�[10]

�The
year 1913 was an ominous one � there now existed the means to loan
the government colossal sums (the Federal Reserve), and the means
to exact repayment (income tax). All that was needed was a good reason
for Washington to borrow.�[11]

�In
1914, World War 1 erupted on the European continent. America eventually
participated, and as a result her national debt soared from $1 billion
to $25 billion.�[12]

�Many
historians would have us believe that this trio of events � the income
tax, the Federal Reserve, and the war � was a coincidence. But too
often history has been written by authors financed by foundations,
in books manufactured by Establishment publishing houses.�[13]
Through war, the international bankers have been bleeding every nation
of their gold and resources while squandering the lives and spilling
the blood of well intentioned patriots and gullible, uninformed citizens.
War is a racket[14]
and creates huge profits for those international bankers who typically
finance both sides.

Yet,
anyone who dares question government military action is vilified.
Either individuals support preemptive, aggressive war or they are
labeled unpatriotic or un-American. Teachers have been suspended for
their just skepticism prompted by �good Republican� parents. Rather,
it is unconscionably un-American to put others in harms way for financial
benefits for your friends and family. None dare express cynicism of
the administration�s war mentality. Acquiescence basically amounts
to the social sanctioning of civilian mass murder.

The
politically-connected military industrial complex often supplies both
sides. American troops serving in Korea, Vietnam and elsewhere have
often been killed or maimed by American-made artillery. It is all
about money � not about spreading democracy, retribution, retaliation,
national security, halting terrorism or communism or any other trumped
up reason. Covert military actions are often undertaken by the CIA
for the purpose of benefiting big business, prostituting a nation�s
resources and exploiting the poor in third world countries.

When
are Americans going to wake up and �Stop being good Democrats.� and
�Stop being good Republicans.� and �Start being good Americans�? Mike
Ruppert compared the two parties to two Mafia crime families. Both
families are heavily engaged in highly illegal activities for which
they are rarely prosecuted. They feign hatred for each other and have
highly publicized shootouts and then get back to their illegalities.
At least their shooting targets are each other and not the general
citizenry. The deliberate distraction of contentious partisan politics
obliterates our obligation to hold our elected government officials
accountable to their oath of office and to the Constitution, the supreme
law of the land. Campaign rhetoric and their subsequent congressional
voting records bear little resemblance to each other.

Unfortunately,
the population typically votes according to their party loyalty instead
of asking what�s good for America and also compatible with the Constitution.
Because of election irregularities and an elite, professional, well
financed or well connected Republican or Democrat political minority,
a strict constitutionalist has an impossible task getting elected.
A prospective patriot must have substantial private money, big business
contributions which suggest political paybacks or thousands of smaller
contributions. One must also be able to attract a sizeable group of
dedicated volunteers and there must be an unbiased media friendliness
that extends beyond the two main parties.

The
Constitution, although the supreme law of the land, and referred to
as that G-d piece of paper by President Bush, is being trashed by
the majority of our elected officials. In his remarks, Bob Schulz
said: �Our founding documents are to govern the government.� Instead
government, in the hands of the egomaniacal elected, has manipulated,
intimidated and brainwashed the populace into regarding the government
as the master rather than the servant of the people. Dumbed down by
government provided education, Americans are ignorant of their rights
and freedoms. It is increasingly easy to separate the sheeple from
their substance. Little by little, we have degenerated into a dreaded
democracy instead of a Republic governed by law. In fact, our elected
officials consistently refer to our government as a democracy � is
it deliberate or is it ignorance? And isn�t democracy what the administration
is claiming to establish in Iraq after they eliminate all the opponents?
As many as 150,000 civilians have already been killed � surely they
must be willing to submit to democracy by now?[15]

Whistleblowers
are not popular with the government. The government complicit media
will no doubt malign Aaron Russo in an attempt to discredit his efforts.
Destroying the messenger is the typical tactic of those endeavoring
to conceal the facts. Michael Moore was vilified in the popular propagandized
press and by �good Republicans� who readily assumed that Moore was
nothing but a left-wing liberal Hollywood Democrat nutcase with zero
credibility. �Good Republicans� didn�t bother to watch his movie,
Fahrenheit 9/11. They were already brainwashed as to what to believe.
And not only that, anyone in Hollywood who even mentions WMD�s, such
as in a recent �Boston Legal� episode, is also considered a left-wing
liberal. Be prepared for the cancellation of that show � driven by
�good Republican� viewers.

Those
labels either render us believable or cast us as an object of scorn.
Granted, a massive amount of morally degenerative garbage regurgitates
regularly out of Hollywood which implements the growth of a Sodom
and Gomorrah style society much to the detriment of floundering families.
Washington, our nation�s political crime center, is not much better.
With Hollywood, we at least recognize that the characters are, after
all, actors.

�Good
Republicans� are characterized as morally superior to �good Democrats.�
However, scoundrels populate both political parties. There are just
as many womanizers, pro-choice (which is really no choice, except
abortion), open to bribery, war hawks and pork-barrel politicians
among the �good Republicans as among the �good Democrats.� Both parties
are on the same slippery slope of socialism. Individuals in both parties
have been exposed for adultery, bribery, corruption, etc. These deliberate
disclosures may be designed to take our minds off decidedly more significant
events.

The
lasting reverberations of Monica, Gennifer, Paula and a presidential
impeachment distracted us from the horrific, continuous 78 day bombing
assault, from March 24, 1999 through June 9, 2000, perpetrated by
the United States and NATO against the non threatening citizens of
Yugoslavia. They indiscriminately bombed schools, bridges, markets
and radio and television stations. The silencing of the media is paramount
in any offensive onslaught. Thousands of civilians, including children
were killed. There were the customary cluster bombs, depleted uranium
and the targeting of petrochemical plants which caused considerable
amounts of toxic waste to flow into the Danube River.

In
addition to the devastating loss of human life, the senseless infrastructure
destruction cost as much as $30 billion. Their elected leader, Slobodan
Milosevic, characterized as the �Butcher of the Balkans,� is no longer
available to offer testimony about United States war crimes. The demise
of Yugoslavia has been blamed on the Serbs and Milosevic. �It was
during the 1991 conflict in Croatia that PR agents in the West started
demonizing Milosevic as the president of Serbia, which was labeled
the "aggressor" in what was actually an ethnic war. As clashes started
in Bosnia in 1992, flaring up into full-scale war upon Izetbegovic's
declaration of independence in April, demonization of Serbs and Milosevic
in particular became a staple of war reporting from the Balkans.�[16]

War
is certainly not limited to Republican administrations. Money generating
warfare, whether small or large scale, is engaged in by both Republican
and Democratic administrations. �Good Republicans� and �good Democrats�
support and fantasize that preemptive warfare is somehow fighting
for our liberty or someone else�s liberty instead of the money-making
motive. Too bad so many of the alleged recipients are slaughtered
before they benefit from this �liberty�. I have a serious problem
with the mass murder of men, women and children in the name of American
freedom. Does this freedom allow us to do any darn thing we want �
to supposedly impose our standards in the name of national security
on anyone of our choosing? Just how do �good Americans� justify this
outrageous behavior? Exactly which God sanctions the mass killing
of strangers in another country? This is not the loving God that I
worship. It must be the usurper![17]

There
are still people who claim we are fighting a �war of terror� based
on the events of September 11, 2001. There always has to be a justification
for war. This �war of terror� farce is perpetuated by numerous �good
Republican� pundits who inflame the patriotic passion of the ignorant
or insult the integrity of knowledgeable skeptics. There is sufficient
evidence to convince any intelligent researcher that the anomalies
of 9/11 cannot be answered satisfactorily by the administration and
their phony 9/11 Commission. A CNN Poll as of March 24, 2006 indicates
the results of the following question: Do you agree with Charlie Sheen
that the U.S. government covered up the real events of the 9/11 attacks?
Yes 81% 20441 votes; No 19% 4688 votes.[18]
I don�t know what political party Sheen belongs to, but he appears
to be acting like a �good American.�

The
so-called morally superior �good Republicans� and their high profile
NGO�s have yet to impede the mass murder of the most innocent of all
Americans. All the majority Republican Congress and �compassionate
conservative� administration has accomplished is the regulation of
the repulsive act of abortion. Regulation only enhances legality.
�Partial-birth abortion bans suggest that abortion is a right, but
it should not be done so distastefully, even if this form of abortion
is most comfortable for the baby-victim. (Saline abortions pickle
a child for hours; the D/C abortion chops the baby up while alive;
whereas partial-birth abortions gently deliver the baby 2/3 of the
way and instantaneously kills them.�[19] We
may compare these terrible tactics to the depleted uranium, flesh-shredding
cluster bombs and toxic biological weapons that are used against humanity.

It
is blatantly hypocritical to claim concern for people who happen to
live in resource rich countries and then merely regulate the continued
slaughter of the American innocent � over 45,000,000 lives have been
brutally taken. Pro-life is pro-life! You can�t be both pro-life and
pro-war! Then there is that deliberately orchestrated un-American
border situation, that un-American NAFTA and CAFTA and a myriad of
other un-American but �good Democrat� and �good Republican� onslaughts
against the middle class.

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Be a �good American� and let
your Senator know how you feel about this invasion. Their response
will allow us to determine where their allegiance is.[20]

�Stop
being a good Democrat. Stop being a good Republican. Start being a
good American.�

Deanna Spingola
has been a quilt designer and is the author of two books. She has traveled
extensively teaching and lecturing on her unique methods. She has always
been an avid reader of non-fiction works designed to educate rather than
entertain. She is active in family history research and lectures on that
topic. Currently she is the director of the local Family History Center.
She has a great interest in politics and the direction of current government
policies, particularly as they relate to the Constitution.